Qualcomm
San Diego chip and wireless technology company building Dragonwing processors and software for robots and other edge devices.
- Qualcomm agrees to buy PickNik, steward of open-source MoveIt, to pull robot motion software onto its Dragonwing chips
Qualcomm Technologies said on 23 September 2026 it had agreed to acquire PickNik Inc., the Boulder, Colorado company behind the MoveIt manipulation framework and its commercial MoveIt Pro platform. Terms were not disclosed. Qualcomm pledged to keep MoveIt 1 and MoveIt 2 open source and hardware agnostic while integrating PickNik's software more tightly with its Dragonwing robotics processors and Arduino boards.
Acquirer - Figure raises more than $1 billion in Parkway-led Series C at a $39 billion valuation, 15 times its 2024 price
Figure AI said on 16 September 2025 it had secured more than $1 billion in committed Series C capital at a $39 billion post-money valuation, with Parkway Venture Capital leading and NVIDIA, Brookfield, Intel Capital, Qualcomm Ventures and LG Technology Ventures among the named backers. The company will spend the money on BotQ production, GPU infrastructure for its Helix model and large-scale collection of human video data.
investor - NEURA Robotics raises EUR 120 million Series B led by Lingotto as it reports a EUR 1 billion order book
NEURA Robotics of Metzingen, Germany, said on 15 January 2025 it had raised EUR 120 million in a Series B round led by Lingotto Investment Management. The company said the money would fund research and development, new product launches and its Neuraverse software platform, and reported more than 300 staff, tenfold revenue growth in a year and a EUR 1 billion order book.
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